Nondirective Parenting - Articles
For parents
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Carrie A.
I still feel guilty about all of the needless suffering my parents went through in the 6.5 years between my diagnosis and the start of effective treatment. I do know it wasn't my fault- I'm getting a teensy bit better at that. But a diagnosis of an eating disorder in a child is often confusing and (when you start reading) kind of depressing. Don't ...
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Parents
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Jennifer
Everything seems to be trucking along fine. Quickly, as I am about 11 weeks already, but boring and most of the time I forget I'm pregnant. We've told the husbands family and got a better response than I had imagined. I'm waiting until after my next appointment to tell my family and friends. They're the ones that have problems keeping their neg ...
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Parents
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Jennifer
Everything seems to be trucking along fine. Quickly, as I am about 11 weeks already, but boring and most of the time I forget I'm pregnant. We've told the husbands family and got a better response than I had imagined. I'm waiting until after my next appointment to tell my family and friends. They're the ones that have problems keeping their neg ...
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Parenting the Parent
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BearTwinsMom
When you take care of your kids, you make sure they get enough rest, eat nutritious foods, get enough exercise, and wear clean clothes. You also make sure they are clean themselves, their surroundings are clean, and that they get their homework done. Plus, you try to teach them right from wrong, how to get along with others, and teach them to have ...
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Parenting
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drstaceyny ..
A recent study conducted by Boston University’s School of Medicine, and appearing in the June issue of Pediatrics, revealed that children of authoritarian (strict disciplinarian) parents are five times more likely to be overweight by the first grade than those reared by more authoritative (democratic) parents. True, children of overly permis ...
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Parenting
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Erinn ..
Lately my daughter has been mean to her twin brother. When I say lately I really mean the last 3 years. She will tell him he cannot have a birthday cake, throw a toy of his or call him a baby. Why she does this to him, the one person that loves her as much if not more then E and I, we don't have a clue. She is hot and cold. If you ask her why ...
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Parenting
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Erinn ..
I stepped out of the car into the warm sunlight. The parking lot was filled with minivans, it was going to be a busy day. I took the kids out of the car and they screamed in unison "park!" they were in their glory. E met me there & we each paired up with a kid and took off. I was following Baby A, wondering why he would walk anywhere ...
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For parents
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Bev
I am not your enemy. If your child is autistic and you want a better life for him or her, I am not your enemy. I want a better life for all autistic people. However they communicate, however well or poorly they score on standardized tests. Whether or not they have medical problems in addition to neurological differences, whether the diagnosis is a ...
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Parenting
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Kelly Fisher
*This is lengthy - but, hopefully encouraging to those of you who are wondering if your kids are "getting it" - in regards to everything you are teaching them about God. Trust me, girls.....they "get it"!"Train a child in the way he should go,and when he is old he will not turn from it."Proverbs 22:6 NIVParenting - the ...
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The parents
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Polar Bear
I spoke to my brother this morning. My parents have been visiting him and his family for 2 months now, and have another month to go. I got the sense my brother simply needed to vent his frustrations, so I listened. He finds it hard to get along with my mom. What a coincidence. So do I. I understood perfectly. He recounted an incident where m ...
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